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Caratacus Stone
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Oct 2006
Caratacus Stone submitted by thecaptain on 23rd Oct 2006. This engraved stone sits in a little stone shelter in order to protect it from the worst of the elements, near to a road junction a couple of kilometres to the southwest of Winsford.
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Carcassonne - La Cité
Date Added: 17th Jun 2020
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: France (Languedoc:Aude (11))
Visited: Yes on 15th Sep 1978
Carcassonne - La Cité submitted by thecaptain on 19th Feb 2005. La Cité de Carcassonne, seen here from the south.
Ancient citadel which goes back as far as time. Although the main remains of this fantastic fairy story city are now mediaeval much of the walls can be seen to date back to Visigoth and Roman times. This is of course, all built upon a citadel which was here long before any of them came here.
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Log Text: Ancient citadel which goes back as far as time. Although the main remains of this fantastic fairy story city are now medieval much of the walls can be seen to date back to Visigoth and Roman times. This is of course, all built upon a citadel which was here long before any of them came here.
Carcassonne - La Cité
Trip No.200 Entry No.20 Date Added: 18th Jun 2020
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: France (Languedoc:Aude (11))
Visited: Yes on 22nd Apr 2000. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 5
Carcassonne - La Cité submitted by thecaptain on 19th Feb 2005. La Cité de Carcassonne, seen here from the south.
Ancient citadel which goes back as far as time. Although the main remains of this fantastic fairy story city are now mediaeval much of the walls can be seen to date back to Visigoth and Roman times. This is of course, all built upon a citadel which was here long before any of them came here.
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Log Text: Drive from Toulouse to Carcassonne the slow way via Bram. Visit La Cité.
Carcassonne - La Cité
Trip No.200 Entry No.35 Date Added: 18th Jun 2020
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: France (Languedoc:Aude (11))
Visited: Yes on 13th May 2000. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 5
Carcassonne - La Cité submitted by thecaptain on 19th Feb 2005. La Cité de Carcassonne, seen here from the south.
Ancient citadel which goes back as far as time. Although the main remains of this fantastic fairy story city are now mediaeval much of the walls can be seen to date back to Visigoth and Roman times. This is of course, all built upon a citadel which was here long before any of them came here.
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Log Text: Dad over to Toulouse for a long weekend. Drive to Carcassonne via Naurouze and the Canal du Midi. Visit La Cité, Castle, Ramparts, Cathedral. Move on to Mirepoix for the night.
Cardinham Churchyard
Date Added: 19th Aug 2025
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 20th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 5
Cardinham Churchyard submitted by Thorgrim on 17th May 2004. This fine 10th century wheel-headed cross is the most southerly example of Scandinavian style ring-chain ornament.
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Log Text: Leaving Penzance, I head to Bodmin Moor, with the intention of collecting some old sites and southern B101 squares on my way to Minions for a moorland walk. I started off at Cardinham with its two splendid old crosses. One is a carved head mounted on top of a huge pillar, the other round by the side is all complete and with carvings.
Cardinham Moor row
Date Added: 4th Jul 2022
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 11th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Cardinham Moor row submitted by Bladup on 29th Oct 2013. Cardinham Moor stone row (Colvannick Tor).
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Log Text: Parked at the rest area beside the A30 near Temple and walked southwest across the moor to exploor Cardinham Moor stone row. Pass beside the large pond, no doubt some mining remnant, then can see a stone standing up on the hillside. Once up there a few more come into sight. Its not straight, is it !! I follow it south to a large leaning pillar, which I later see described as Stone 1, the southern end. However, I see another stone standing over on the slopes of St Bellarmin's Tor, so went for a look, where I found not only the standing stone, but also couple more, in as good a line as the rest of the row. They also show up on the detailed OS maps (about SX 131 712). Back to the car then go for a couple of halves at the Blisland Inn.
Cardinham Moor stone
Date Added: 4th Jul 2022
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 11th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Cardinham Moor stone submitted by TheCaptain on 30th Jun 2022. Standing stone on Cardinham Moor, near to St Bellarmin's Tor
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Log Text: Standing stone, and a couple of prostrate slabs and stumps on Cardinham Moor, beyond what is described as the southern end of the stone row. From the leaning pillar which is described as Stone 1 of the stone row, I could see another stone standing to the south, so went for a look, where I found a couple more. These stones are further to the south, and in as good a line as the rest of the stone row (its not straight, is it!). They also show up on the detailed OS maps (about SX 131 712). Which begs the question. Is the leaning pillar really the southern end of the stone row? Is this stone a separate entity? Or could it be a continuation of the stone row?
Carew High Cross
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: Wales (Pembrokeshire)
Visited: Yes on 8th Nov 2015
Carew High Cross submitted by TheCaptain on 8th Nov 2015. Not the best of pictures I know, it was late on in a horrid wet day, but what a great combination. Fabulous ancient cross, terriffic Castle, and best of all, taken while supping a nice pint from in the bar of a good pub with a roaring fire !!!
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Carn Eanes Standing stone
Date Added: 29th Jun 2023
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 10th Jun 2023
Carn Eanes Standing stone submitted by Bladup on 1st Jul 2020. Carn Eanes Standing stone with whats left of (because of Quarrying) Carn Eanes in the background
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Log Text: Walking down to Boscaswell from Carn Kenidjack, and pass nearby to this standing stone. It seems to be in private land with no obvious way in, so I satisfy myself with a view over the hedge.
Carn Euny Fogou
Date Added: 11th Aug 2022
Site Type: Souterrain (Fogou, Earth House)
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 15th May 1986
Carn Euny Fogou submitted by thecaptain on 31st Aug 2008. Carn Euny Fogou, back in the early 1980's.
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Carn Euny Fogou
Date Added: 11th Aug 2022
Site Type: Souterrain (Fogou, Earth House)
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 4
Carn Euny Fogou submitted by AngieLake on 2nd Jan 2005. This shot shows the huge but low (4.5ft - 1.4m) SE-facing doorway of the Carn Euny 'Beehive Hut' underground chamber, with its own short passage leading into the fogou passage which runs SW/NE, (but snaking here with a flatter, more W/E run), just outside the doorway. It is thought that the Beehive Hut (chamber) was the first structure on this site, so that originally the eastern wall of the fogou passage would not have obstructed the view. It is possible that the sun was meant to shine down t...
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Log Text: I move on to Carn Euny village with its fantastic fogou, which has now had the round chamber covered, really magical. The remains of the village courtyard houses do not match up to the wonders of Chysauster, but this is more than made up for by the magic of the fogou.
Carn Euny Village
Date Added: 9th Aug 2022
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Carn Euny Village submitted by AngieLake on 31st Oct 2004. This view over the Carn Euny Settlement was taken in two shots, which are cobbled together to give an idea of how it looked in March 2004. Bec-Zog's pic is similar to this.
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Log Text: I move on to Carn Euny village with its fantastic fogou, which has now had the round chamber covered, really magical. The remains of the village courtyard houses do not match up to the wonders of Chysauster, but this is more than made up for by the magic of the fogou.
Carn Gluze
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 24th Feb 2004
Carn Gluze submitted by TheCaptain on 24th Feb 2004. Ballowall Barrow / Carn Gluze. July 2003
Difficult to get a good picture of, but I quite like the way this one shows the position of the barrow with respect to the clifftop views.
Others will probably have better pictures of the structure itself
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Carn Kenidjack propped stone
Date Added: 29th Jun 2023
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 10th Jun 2023
Carn Kenidjack propped stone submitted by cornishstargazer on 16th Jul 2020. Possible propped stone found on Carn Kenidjack. It has two points of contact and sits proud on the northern end of the natural rocky outcrop.
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Log Text: Big walk round the Botallack mines area today, starting off by walking up to the top of Carn Kenidjack. Some lovely cattle grazing up here, who don't seem to mind my presence as I greet them all. I am not convinced of anything other than natural up here. Everything is hazy up here today with a sea mist rolling in, so I miss out on the views.
Carn Lês Boel
Date Added: 17th Jul 2023
Site Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 14th Jun 2023
Carn Lês Boel submitted by JimChampion on 29th Aug 2008. August 2007. View across Mill Bay towards the Carn Lês Boel headland. The shallow inner ditch and bank are quite clearly highlighted by the low evening sunlight - look just above the shadowy chasm. There is a narrower, fainter outer ditch that reaches to the top left of the chasm - possibly an unfinished outer defence.
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Log Text: Walk from St Levan along the coast path, through Porthgwarra and out to Gwennap Head. Keep going right round to Carn Barra where I stop for my pasty, overlooking Zawn Kellys to Carn Lês Boel and Lands End. I spend ages watching the flocks of seabirds on the sea, no doubt all above shoals of fish, fulmars soaring around in the coves and their nests on the cliffs, and lots of choughs busying themselves between feeding on the clifftops and taking food to their nests on the cliffs. Its great to see the choughs back here again. Fabulous.
Carn Pica
Date Added: 28th Oct 2019
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Yes on 20th Aug 2019
Carn Pica submitted by TheCaptain on 28th Aug 2019. Carn Pica. The splendid "modern" cairn probably sits on the position of an ancient cairn.
View east down the valley of the River Usk. Black Mountains in the distance
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Log Text: A splendid "modern" cairn at the top of the most easterly tip of the main Brecon Beacons ridge, just to the east of the summit of Waun Rydd, probably built at the position of an ancient cairn.
Carn y Defaid (N)
Date Added: 4th Apr 2025
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Wales (Monmouthshire)
Visited: Yes on 26th Mar 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Carn y Defaid (N) submitted by PBertson on 1st May 2023. Looking across the cairn to show the dip in the middle. Blorenge TV masts in background.
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Log Text: From the hilltop southern cairn, the northern cairn can be seen about 100m away down the slight slope with Blorenge and Ysgyryd in the distance. But the ground underfoot up here is so bad for walking across, no path, knee deep heather, broken stone, muddy holes and adders, that I didn't risk my ankles in going over to it.
Carn y Defaid (S)
Date Added: 31st Mar 2025
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Wales (Monmouthshire)
Visited: Yes on 26th Mar 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Carn y Defaid (S) submitted by TheCaptain on 31st Mar 2025. Carn y Defaid (S) viewed looking east.
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Log Text: A visit Raglan Castle, and as it's such a lovely day and seeing the hills on the horizon, I just had to go up top of Blorenge and walk along to the highly visible Carn y Defaid. It's a terrible path underfoot from the Foxhunter car park, all a jumble of rocks, bog and heather. The hilltop southern cairn can be seen from miles around, and equally, on a day like today, can see for miles from it. To the north is the great whaleback moutain Blorenge, while to the northeast, over Abergavenny, can be seen the broken hill of Ysgyryd. Superb, but I do remember being here in the past, all cold and wet with about 10 yards visibility!
Carnac Musée de Préhistoire
Trip No.203 Entry No.413 Date Added: 21st May 2020
Site Type: Museum
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 14th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Carnac Musée de Préhistoire submitted by rw1 on 4th Mar 2008. 09/2007
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Log Text: There is lots of stuff in here, found at various places in the locality. Some good explanations of the various types of dolmen and tumulus to be found, and some lovely replicas of many of the engraved stones to be found. Seems like I have seen most of these now.
Carnac Plage Dolmen
Trip No.206 Entry No.35 Date Added: 23rd Mar 2025
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 29th Jun 2016. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Carnac Plage dolmen submitted by Ogneslav on 19th Jul 2008. Carnac Plage dolmen
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Log Text: In square Leblois in the seaside resort of Carnac plage can be found a dolmen and a menhir.